All posts tagged business strategy

We’re scarily almost half-way through 2017. How’s it going so far? Did you set a Strategic Destination and then work backwards, breaking the journey down to that destination into manageable milestones?

If you didn’t then your answer is, “I don’t know” and that’s the worst answer you can have. Let’s talk about that later. Continue reading →

Spring is here at last, days are getting longer, new life is all around us and we’re at the end of the first quarter of this year already.

Now is the perfect time to look at how your business is going since the start of the year and if you’re on track to meet your end of year goals.

How do you feel about how things have gone so far? Are you excited, are you flat, are you stressed? Have you achieved what you wanted? Are you where you hoped you’d be?

The following 3 questions will help you gauge how well the rest of the year is going to pan out. If you’re struggling to answer these questions then heed this early warning and do something about it. Continue reading →

I explained that I help business owners strengthen their business foundation and help them create the right strategy for their business.

He seemed genuinely interested and asked more questions about the needs of small business owners, about why I did what I did and about my ‘job satisfaction’.

I talked about how most business owners struggle to grow their business and my findings as to why and what I do to try and change that.

I found myself re-visiting the purpose of my business and what I do. Helped by a few glasses of red wine I’m sure, I felt the passion behind my mission to have more businesses succeed than fail rise to the surface. Continue reading →

In my last post I highlighted 3 reasons why business owners don’t create the right strategy that can take their business to the next level.

Basically…

They can’t find the time;

They didn’t know how to create a strategy plan or

Because last year was good enough they didn’t see the point.

If you fall into the 1st group and you haven’t read my last post then please do, because I focused on the importance of setting aside the time and how to.

If you fall into the 3rd group then you should read my report, Why Most businesses Fail, and see why no matter how successful your business was last year, it could easily have gone the other way and why having the right strategy would in fact have made last year even more successful and this year even better.

In this post I want to briefly talk about the 2nd group of business owners – those who don’t really know how to create a strategy that can make this huge difference to their business.

If you fall into that group, I have some good news.

The first piece of good news is that if you are simply carrying on from where you left off last year and haven’t created a strategy that could transform your business this year and beyond, well it’s not too late. Continue reading →

Your business needs you. Unfortunately, what most businesses get are tired, stressed business owners who spend most of their days running around in their business resolving issues and generally reacting to the demands of others.

As well as look after your current customers well, your business needs you to do 2 things really well. It needs you to differentiate your business from your competitors and attract your ideal prospects.

It needs you to be creative.

But, how can you be this creative genius when your days are filled with interruptions that demand your attention? Continue reading →

Yesterday (at the time of writing this post) England made it through the first group round of Euro 2016 with a lacklustre performance against Slovakia. (Well done Wales for a great performance and coming top of the group table.)

At half-time what do you think the team managers were saying to the players? If you were the England manager what would you have said?

So let’s make this an analogy and apply it to your business. We’re half-way through the year and it is time to step back and review how the first half has gone. (Hopefully this isn’t your first review and you carried one out at the end of Q1.)

Aside from observing just how quickly the first half went, what would you review? Continue reading →

If you’ve followed my work you’ve probably heard me say that the success of a business is proportional to its strength and that this strength is derived from the foundation that it is built on.

Now I don’t make claims like this without backing them up.

I’ve detailed why a business that lacks this foundation will struggle and ultimately fail in my report, Why Most Businesses Fail.

In my eBook, How Strong Is Your Business? I show how the right foundation will make your business strong in 4 vital ways and how each of these strengths directly attributes to the potential success of your business.

I’ve written also articles and published a book, Your Business Foundation, on the subject.

All of this is to help you as a business owner build a strong business that is far more likely to be an extraordinary business, that is one of the few that thrives and not one of the many that sinks.

Until now, to access each eBook, report or other training material you’ve needed to leave me your details – not anymore.

Remember doing the dot-to-dots as a kid? You had a page of dots that made no sense but by drawing a connecting line according to the numbered sequence, suddenly you had picture that made sense.

Connect the dots in your business and you will know what you need to do and why, and you will be in far more control.

Unfortunately, too many business owners leap around trying different tactics in order to achieve their results. If the dots aren’t connected there is no control and the picture makes no sense. Continue reading →

As Christmas approaches like a freight train it’s time to reflect on and review the past year. To do that you need to do what most find hard and that’s stop.

Get off the treadmill and stop what you’re doing and give yourself and your managers space so that you can look at the year and review how well or not it went. Even if you are your business and there is no one else, it’s so important that you do this.

Doing this is vitally important because you don’t want to repeat the mistakes of this year, you don’t want the same issues holding you back and you want take what went well into next.

When preparing for the year ahead you start to think about the goals you want to achieve next year. Before you do that, instead, think about your strategic destination and align your annual goals to this further-reaching position you want to get your business to.

If you have defined a strategic destination, review it and check that it is still valid. If you don’t have one then now’s the time (before you set your annual goals) to create it.

A strategic destination is a clearly defined destination for you to aim your business at. Ideally it would take your business to the next level. It should be a massive milestone that gets your business a big step closer to your ultimate vision. Continue reading →

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My name is Christopher Briggs, the author of the best selling book "Your Business Foundation".
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